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menopausal women and rose had us on a travel list well into the 1970s when it began to be listed in massachusetts as a controlled substance, so it appears to me that even she may have had some issues. i don't want to go to the point of saying an addiction but she certainly indicated by the drugs that she was taking with her on trips that she had quite an array of medicatiomedicatio ns. sometimes perhaps even what people do today they end up taking medications for the symptoms that are caused by the other medications that they are taking. i don't want to say that she contributed to the addiction problems but it could be some sort of -- some sort of genetic issue within the family that rose may have had as well. >> host: there on the dark side of camelot here for a minute. what about chappaquiddick and her reaction to that and how she handled back? >> guest: again she doesn't have -- a lot of her personal papers but she does write to people about it at the time and is has a little bit of a journal about it
menopausal women and rose had us on a travel list well into the 1970s when it began to be listed in massachusetts as a controlled substance, so it appears to me that even she may have had some issues. i don't want to go to the point of saying an addiction but she certainly indicated by the drugs that she was taking with her on trips that she had quite an array of medicatiomedicatio ns. sometimes perhaps even what people do today they end up taking medications for the symptoms that are caused by...
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there was 1955 speech at the assumption college in my hometown of massachusetts, where he said about the cold war that i believe religion itself is at the root of the struggle and not in terms of the physical organizations or christianity versus those of atheism, but in terms of good versus evil and right versus wrong. and in his remarks during the campaign at the tabernacle in salt lake city, where he said the enemy is a communist system itself, insatiable and unceasing in its drive for world domination, it is also a struggle for supremacy between conflicting nato ologies, freedom under god versus godless turning. in kennedy's famous lines in the inaugural address, the same revolutionary beliefs for which we are still at issue around the globe. coming not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of god. we shall pay any price and bear any burden and meet any hardship and support any friends and oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty. and ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country. and in december 1962 he said i
there was 1955 speech at the assumption college in my hometown of massachusetts, where he said about the cold war that i believe religion itself is at the root of the struggle and not in terms of the physical organizations or christianity versus those of atheism, but in terms of good versus evil and right versus wrong. and in his remarks during the campaign at the tabernacle in salt lake city, where he said the enemy is a communist system itself, insatiable and unceasing in its drive for world...
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towards full legal equality, and simply put, equality works in massachusetts and it works for massachusetts by ensuring that lgbt individuals have the same employment protections as everyone else, we have made the light of liberty in our state burn even more brightly. and the same basic civil rights protections that have been extended to lgbt residents of massachusetts should be extended to lgbt people across the entire nation. for the last two decades, the people of massachusetts have supported a national employment nondiscrimination law because we cannot allow our nation to have one standard in states that pass laws that protect people from discrimination and to have other states that do not. we cannot have the careers of people, the dreams of people to be in fear of prosecution as people move from state to state. this should be a national standard which we establish, a standard that ensures that every person knows that wherever they are in the united states of america, that they are going to be protected, that they were -- that they were created by god and that they have a right to these
towards full legal equality, and simply put, equality works in massachusetts and it works for massachusetts by ensuring that lgbt individuals have the same employment protections as everyone else, we have made the light of liberty in our state burn even more brightly. and the same basic civil rights protections that have been extended to lgbt residents of massachusetts should be extended to lgbt people across the entire nation. for the last two decades, the people of massachusetts have...
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this event from the hyannis museum in massachusetts is just over an hour. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen. we want to welcome you here to the john f. kennedy hyannis museum. we're very happy to have you here this evening, and we're happy to have c-span with us as well for the author, martin sandler and rob sennett, who's a past chairman of the board of trustees of the jfk hyannis museum foundation. my name is dick neats, and i'm happy to have you with us, and we're looking forward to a wonderful program, and we thank you all again. i would give you a couple of reminders, if you would. please turn your cell phones off, since we are being recorded, i understand c-span will broadcast it within the next couple of weeks, maybe on the weekend within a couple of weeks, so keep an eye out for that, and if you would -- what was the other thing i was supposed to remind -- >> when they ask you -- >> oh, yes. the microphones you see here are not for distribution throughout our museum, but they are for c-span. so if you have a question, don't talk from the back of the room and expect to be h
this event from the hyannis museum in massachusetts is just over an hour. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen. we want to welcome you here to the john f. kennedy hyannis museum. we're very happy to have you here this evening, and we're happy to have c-span with us as well for the author, martin sandler and rob sennett, who's a past chairman of the board of trustees of the jfk hyannis museum foundation. my name is dick neats, and i'm happy to have you with us, and we're looking forward...
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well, i guess, if you're a conservative democrat from massachusetts, you get called a pragmatist. if you're a liberal republican from the south, you might get called a pragmatist. you know, kennedy, kennedy said sometimes it's not the labels that matter, and i go back and forth about whether he was right about that. i think the labels in some ways are useful lenses for helping us remember what actually happened. and that's, you know, that's really what i hope people will take away here. >> well, thank you very much. >> we'd like to hear from you. tweet us your feedback, twitter.com/booktv. >> november 22, 2013, is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of president john f. kennedy, and there are several books that have been published this season to mark the event. throughout the month join other readers to discuss the kennedy books published this year. simply go to booktv.org and click on book club. once there, you can check out some of the book club resources we have posted including book reviews and videos from the booktv archives, and you can log in as a guest or through you
well, i guess, if you're a conservative democrat from massachusetts, you get called a pragmatist. if you're a liberal republican from the south, you might get called a pragmatist. you know, kennedy, kennedy said sometimes it's not the labels that matter, and i go back and forth about whether he was right about that. i think the labels in some ways are useful lenses for helping us remember what actually happened. and that's, you know, that's really what i hope people will take away here....
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the funeral in massachusetts, others there, young john kennedy, john jr. saluting the coffin as it went by. we were watching it when the burial at arlington cemetery, and we lived only a couple miles from there, and we saw the first jets -- the fighter jets flying over. we rushed outside just in time to see what we all know is the missing man formation, when the jets are in formation and one peels off. we saw that. and then we saw air force i fly over, just having gone over and dipped its wing. it was a very large plane at that time. and here's air force i in blue, white, silver, the same plane that brought president kennedy's body back a few days before from dallas. it was coming out of i is a liewght. -- it was coming out of saluting. i say this because thrie througt that time and everywhere we wernghts yowent, you saw silentd city, both those who supported president kennedy and those who had not, everybody knew what a blow this was to our country. in fact, i i did not see again that kind of shock and silence in washington, d.c., until i walked from my o
the funeral in massachusetts, others there, young john kennedy, john jr. saluting the coffin as it went by. we were watching it when the burial at arlington cemetery, and we lived only a couple miles from there, and we saw the first jets -- the fighter jets flying over. we rushed outside just in time to see what we all know is the missing man formation, when the jets are in formation and one peels off. we saw that. and then we saw air force i fly over, just having gone over and dipped its wing....
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well, i guess, if you're a conservative democrat from massachusetts, you get called a pragmatist. if you're a liberal republican from the south, you might get called a pragmatist. you know, kennedy, kennedy said sometimes it's not the labels that matter, and i go back and forth about whether he was right about that. i think the labels in some ways are useful lenses for helping us remember what actually happened. and that's, you know, that's really what i hope people >> my name is charles e. lee. he is running late, so we will go ahead and get started because this is being televised. the reporter on the scene when kennedy was killed. 1963. to my far left he was at docile and kennedy arrived he lives of the key players working on the warren commission that investigated the death of kennedy. was going to start with mr. willens. he is going to read five to eight minutes. then we will have chiles will read from his book for five to eight minutes the man then we will have this session and open it up to questions. thank you very much. >> proceed. >> like tech expressed by appreciation fo
well, i guess, if you're a conservative democrat from massachusetts, you get called a pragmatist. if you're a liberal republican from the south, you might get called a pragmatist. you know, kennedy, kennedy said sometimes it's not the labels that matter, and i go back and forth about whether he was right about that. i think the labels in some ways are useful lenses for helping us remember what actually happened. and that's, you know, that's really what i hope people >> my name is charles...
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singer-songwriter james taylor and massachusetts governor deval patrick. >> this weekend, american history tv looks back at the assassination of jfk and its aftermath with eyewitness accounts, scene seems from the president's trip to texas and commemorative events from dealey plaza and the jfk library and newseum. also your chance to talk to authors and historians saturday at five eastern with dollars 1963 co-author. coverage continues sunday with lyndon johnson's november 27 address to congress, and your questions live with lbj biographer. remembering jfk on american history tv, this weekend on c-span3. >> on tuesday, former british ambassador to the us sir thank you spoke for about an hour before the british foreign affairs committee on the status of u.k./u.s. relations. he served as the and capacitor from 2007-2012 and talked about the challenges working with the various foreign department. you give notice influence in syria and libya, the role of vice president and diplomatic talks have the bridge me to proceed relations with the u.s. >> quarter. our second witness today is no stranger
singer-songwriter james taylor and massachusetts governor deval patrick. >> this weekend, american history tv looks back at the assassination of jfk and its aftermath with eyewitness accounts, scene seems from the president's trip to texas and commemorative events from dealey plaza and the jfk library and newseum. also your chance to talk to authors and historians saturday at five eastern with dollars 1963 co-author. coverage continues sunday with lyndon johnson's november 27 address to...
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rates among young adults is 21% in the year prior to the passage of the law in massachusetts. that rate dropped to 8% in the after. i think it does, the experience, the survey research that we've done, the experience in massachusetts does suggest young adults will come into the market places, the numbers will help do what we're hoping they would do not only helping them but also stabilizing the market. spent so, we used all sorts of information sources to, on a weekly basis, hit the restart button. i had a meeting with my senior folks every week, looking back at what we know about enrollment, what we know about folks who were on the ground. so if we know that holding an event in the evening results in five people showing up versus launch, you get 50 people to show up, that's where our resources go. so we look at everything that's happened to not only the data we're seeing but also what we're hearing from our sisters. orienteering from brokers in community groups or on the ground. end of the week we slightly shift our strategy. and i can tell you week one at a lot of events pla
rates among young adults is 21% in the year prior to the passage of the law in massachusetts. that rate dropped to 8% in the after. i think it does, the experience, the survey research that we've done, the experience in massachusetts does suggest young adults will come into the market places, the numbers will help do what we're hoping they would do not only helping them but also stabilizing the market. spent so, we used all sorts of information sources to, on a weekly basis, hit the restart...
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i'm from massachusetts. i was itching in high school when kennedy died. we were at the symphony that day. listening to you, reminds me of a discussion of them are recent president who really was not a great success in congress, and never really was very interested in congress. what i remember from november was it seemed like the civil rights bill and most of the other domestic agenda was kind of stuck. >> the civil rights bill had actually gotten through the house judiciary committee, because they back and kennedy had done some horse trading and mayor richard daley of chicago had leaned on some people. so it was through the first hurdle at the time it interesting, charlie hallock when he got together with kennedy afterward, kennedy asked them and charlie said sometimes a guy does the right thing and then he said, every time i go down to hot springs georgia, hot springs or warm springs? he says, my colored chauffeur can't sta state enough to but he said it makes me so angry. it was for him, it was a personal thing. the tax bill i think definitelyy would ha
i'm from massachusetts. i was itching in high school when kennedy died. we were at the symphony that day. listening to you, reminds me of a discussion of them are recent president who really was not a great success in congress, and never really was very interested in congress. what i remember from november was it seemed like the civil rights bill and most of the other domestic agenda was kind of stuck. >> the civil rights bill had actually gotten through the house judiciary committee,...
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the presiding officer: the senator from massachusetts. mrs. warren: and i want to thank the senator from maine. and i will do my very best. madam president, i rise today to speak about the importance of passing the employment nondiscrimination act, a bill that i'm proud to cosponsor and to support. it has taken us far too long to arrive at this day. for nearly four years, members of congress have worked to pass legislation that would protect lgbt americans from discrimination in the workplace. much has changed since bella abzug introduced the equality act of 1974. equal marriage is now the law in 14 states. 21 states and the district of columbia have enacted laws to protect against employment discrimination based on sexual orientation. and 16 states and the district of columbia also protect against gender identity discrimination. the supreme court has rejected doma, a law that legalized discrimination against same-sex spouses by calling that law exactly what it was -- unconstitutional. in the private sector, a majority of fortune 500 companies
the presiding officer: the senator from massachusetts. mrs. warren: and i want to thank the senator from maine. and i will do my very best. madam president, i rise today to speak about the importance of passing the employment nondiscrimination act, a bill that i'm proud to cosponsor and to support. it has taken us far too long to arrive at this day. for nearly four years, members of congress have worked to pass legislation that would protect lgbt americans from discrimination in the workplace....
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talking about the massachusetts experience in which during the first month of their normal for the massachusetts exchange only 3 percent of the total signed up because people take there time. this is an uneasy position. but in connecticut where we have an exchange that has been up and running mon-khmer website that is working to win the first month in know what our number was? 11%. we in rhode 10 percent of our expected total in the first 30 days. here is what people say about their experience with connecticut exchange. one person said this is a great resource for canada residents to apply for of coverage. thanks to the health care law. another said, i chose it because i have been denied in the past by other carriers before this law changed. another said, thank you so much for the south carolina. have not been short in a decade. and so, so thankful. another said, thank you for this program. a loss my jaw year ago and could not find anything i can afford enough coverage before this law passed. finally another said, thank you, this law is helpful and appreciated. airbus america. thank you, preside
talking about the massachusetts experience in which during the first month of their normal for the massachusetts exchange only 3 percent of the total signed up because people take there time. this is an uneasy position. but in connecticut where we have an exchange that has been up and running mon-khmer website that is working to win the first month in know what our number was? 11%. we in rhode 10 percent of our expected total in the first 30 days. here is what people say about their experience...
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the legal age for marriage in massachusetts was 16. the average age was 24, which except for james is the average age of which her sisters were married and also the age at which benjamin franklin was married. it is extremely unusual to marry at the age of 15. it was also illegal. the man she married was poor. he was a sadler. she never once heard anything but the least affection. she heard about anything at all. she wrote the firstborn 1729 and then added 19, died may 18, 1730. the child of her childhood died three weeks shy of her first birthday. a dead child despite no more surprising than me pretty sure in a sermon called for dots inside the hours. one in four children died before the age of 10. they were wrapped in linen, dipped in melted? her box was a time is built and painted black. at the gravesite. the more earnest, norm ministers wanted there to be any tears. a token from warner said the price of price we distressed mother of her dear only son printed in boston the way james first child died. luke chapter 17 verse 13, we cann
the legal age for marriage in massachusetts was 16. the average age was 24, which except for james is the average age of which her sisters were married and also the age at which benjamin franklin was married. it is extremely unusual to marry at the age of 15. it was also illegal. the man she married was poor. he was a sadler. she never once heard anything but the least affection. she heard about anything at all. she wrote the firstborn 1729 and then added 19, died may 18, 1730. the child of her...
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from massachusetts to rhode island. economic incentives play a role but people migrate in mass numbers to pursue dreams or skate nightmares and one illustration of the thesis that economic incentives are not paramount is what i call the migration that did not happen. the fact that in three generations from the civil war to world war ii for making 65-1940, 75 years very few southerners migrated to the north despite the fact the wages were constantly two three times higher in the north. economic incentive was there, no political boundary, no border patrol, no immigration station to get through and during the years, more than thirty million immigrants came across the ocean from europe to the united states only 1 million black southerners and 1 million white southerners move from south to north. this is a measure of the depth of the wounds in which 600,000 americans in a country of thirty million died. i mentioned the yankee north tried to impose racial equality on the south, but that was resisted ultimately by voters in th
from massachusetts to rhode island. economic incentives play a role but people migrate in mass numbers to pursue dreams or skate nightmares and one illustration of the thesis that economic incentives are not paramount is what i call the migration that did not happen. the fact that in three generations from the civil war to world war ii for making 65-1940, 75 years very few southerners migrated to the north despite the fact the wages were constantly two three times higher in the north. economic...
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the outbreak started in massachusetts last year. why wasn't the fda responding to these sort of pharmacies? >> well, there was somewhat of a gray area in the law. the fda was responsible for these pharmacies, but there was a court ruling that had put some of their responsibility in to question. since outbreak the fda has been involved more heavily in inspections. but this law is to clarify that and creates a new voluntary category, which is somewhat controversial allowing some of these large pharmacy manufacturing facilities to register themselves and submit themselves to more fda scrutiny similar to the kind a traditional drug manufacturer undergo. >> who are the bill's main sponsors in the senate? >> in the senate it's tom harkin, the head of the health committee, and it is lamar alexander, the republican ranking member of that committee. it's got wide spread support. you don't really have a division between the parties here. in fact, senator alexander, like many other republican senators comes from a state that was badly affected
the outbreak started in massachusetts last year. why wasn't the fda responding to these sort of pharmacies? >> well, there was somewhat of a gray area in the law. the fda was responsible for these pharmacies, but there was a court ruling that had put some of their responsibility in to question. since outbreak the fda has been involved more heavily in inspections. but this law is to clarify that and creates a new voluntary category, which is somewhat controversial allowing some of these...
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like california and massachusetts. other regions of the country; whole does not have a large presence in some states, like california and massachusetts. other regions are well aware that kentucky. to hear t cncer we country. but since epa i refuses tocom to kentucky, i decided on behalf of kentucky's coal miners and families that i would bring their concerns to you myself. the epa won't come to listen to us, we'll come here. to the epa. by now it is clear that this administration and your agency have declared a war on colt. for kentucky it means a war on jobs and our state's economy. the president outright stated his intention for the coal industry. this is what he had to say. if somebody wants to build a coal power plant. they can. it will bankrupt them. they're going to be charged a huge sum for the greenhouse gas being emitted. a direct quote from the president of the united states. one of the first things president obama did upon taking office in 2009 was to push through congress' cap-and-trade bill to try to push
like california and massachusetts. other regions of the country; whole does not have a large presence in some states, like california and massachusetts. other regions are well aware that kentucky. to hear t cncer we country. but since epa i refuses tocom to kentucky, i decided on behalf of kentucky's coal miners and families that i would bring their concerns to you myself. the epa won't come to listen to us, we'll come here. to the epa. by now it is clear that this administration and your...
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both said their asthmatics who expensed their worst during high ozone days or young six-year-old from massachusetts whose pediatrician prescribes a five day course of steroids whenever she express a major flareup of her symptoms. she calls these crying medicine because they cause of have nightmares, angry outbursts and episodes of uncontrollable tears. raven, destiny armed men with the tip of the iceberg. over seven when children suffer from asthma in the united states. this number is growing. june 2010 studies from the center for disease control showed an increase in asthma for all ages from 2001-2009. how do we reverse these numbers? how to reduce the suffering of future generations when it comes to this chronic disease? reducing carbon pollution is a critical first step. power plants are our nation's largest source of carbon pollution with 40% of our nation's carbon dioxide emitted from power plants. carbon pollution is causing global warming and hotter weather means more ozone. more ozone in turn causes more lung damage. for children's lungs in particular. more locally in d.c., the air received
both said their asthmatics who expensed their worst during high ozone days or young six-year-old from massachusetts whose pediatrician prescribes a five day course of steroids whenever she express a major flareup of her symptoms. she calls these crying medicine because they cause of have nightmares, angry outbursts and episodes of uncontrollable tears. raven, destiny armed men with the tip of the iceberg. over seven when children suffer from asthma in the united states. this number is growing....
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administrator mccarthy received a bachelor of arts degree in social anthropology at the university of massachusetts and the masters of science in environmental health and community in planning from tufts university. at this time i will yield to the gentlewoman from connecticut ms. etsy for additional comments. >> thank you chairman smith and ranking member johnson for holding today's hearing on the environmental protection agency. i'm very pleased to welcome administrator gina mccarthy who served as commissioner of connecticut's department of environmental protection and then as an assistant administrator of the u.s. epa. administrator mccarthy it's wonderful to see you again. congratulations on your confirmation. you have an important role and responsibility as head of an agency charged with protecting the environment and the public's health. i appreciate all of your hard work to that and that we are very proud of you in connecticut and very pleased to see you here today. >> thank you ms. etsy. administrator mccarthy we welcome your testimony and please proceed. >> oh i'm so sorry. good morning ch
administrator mccarthy received a bachelor of arts degree in social anthropology at the university of massachusetts and the masters of science in environmental health and community in planning from tufts university. at this time i will yield to the gentlewoman from connecticut ms. etsy for additional comments. >> thank you chairman smith and ranking member johnson for holding today's hearing on the environmental protection agency. i'm very pleased to welcome administrator gina mccarthy...
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. >> sender yields back to the chair recognizes the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. mcgovern. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank you and breaking number peterson as well as chairwoman stabenow and ranking or copper and for all your hard work and dedication. i want to thank the staff of the many hours of work they put into this effort. let me set as elegant what else you i very much want a farm bill. i look forward to working with the members of this conference to try to me to achieve ago. being from massachusetts the are many important parts of this farm bill that will impact my state, and new england. the gary conservation and especially crop provisions are especially critical but a part of the country i represent and i strongly support full and robust dairy conservation especially crop provisions in the final conference report. i'm also pleased to see both the house and senate included language to close the animal fighting spectator loophole. both bills would prohibit knowingly attending an animal fight will bring a child to an animal fight and urge my col
. >> sender yields back to the chair recognizes the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. mcgovern. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank you and breaking number peterson as well as chairwoman stabenow and ranking or copper and for all your hard work and dedication. i want to thank the staff of the many hours of work they put into this effort. let me set as elegant what else you i very much want a farm bill. i look forward to working with the members of this conference to try to...
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io's glad i was here to see thed she and the senator fromsnd i massachusetts all or at the hearing this morning where they have the center of medicaid andc medicare services talking abouts the health care law. a senator from alaska wasn especially cogent in pointing out the difficulties and who differences between those twonai live in alaska and their inability to connect to theem services in the new health carel law. e if i remember correctly she sait only three have been able to drc enroll in pointed out the differences in time. i would like to spend a few minutes reflecting them whatthis happened this morning and what i said to the administration's witness., i begin by telling a story about 16,000 to alexian's who have insurance through something called cover tennessee. a low-cost coverage stateir program. obamacare is canceling a policy. the cover tennessee apparently is an example of what the president has called bad applesd an insurance plan that washington has decided is not enough for you. t i recently heard from one ofn those who policy will bee cancelled on january 1. her name
io's glad i was here to see thed she and the senator fromsnd i massachusetts all or at the hearing this morning where they have the center of medicaid andc medicare services talking abouts the health care law. a senator from alaska wasn especially cogent in pointing out the difficulties and who differences between those twonai live in alaska and their inability to connect to theem services in the new health carel law. e if i remember correctly she sait only three have been able to drc enroll in...
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i've met with recovering veterans at home in massachusetts. i've met within a walter reed. they want very simply a world where they can be independent, go out and fend for themselves, where they can travel abroad to work or study or vacation. they should never have to worry about whether the disabilities sustained fighting on our behalf are going to prevent them from accessing classrooms, a workplace, a hotel or transportation overseas. like all people with disabilities, they deserve a world where they can fully participate in the global economy on equal terms without fear of discrimination or loss of dignity. joining the disabilities treaty will also help expand opportunities for american students with disabilities, who need to be able to study abroad to prepare themselves to compete in the global economy. i want you to take the example of anais. she is one of the outstanding interns at the state department. she's here today. anais is a graduate student with dreams of a career in foreign affairs. she happens to also be deaf. two years ago, she traveled to ghana. it was the
i've met with recovering veterans at home in massachusetts. i've met within a walter reed. they want very simply a world where they can be independent, go out and fend for themselves, where they can travel abroad to work or study or vacation. they should never have to worry about whether the disabilities sustained fighting on our behalf are going to prevent them from accessing classrooms, a workplace, a hotel or transportation overseas. like all people with disabilities, they deserve a world...
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i grew up in massachusetts where whittier was from. i had whittier rammed down my throat and didn't like him much. when the library of america called me to do the book on whittier, i thought, all right. i reread him and he was marvelous. i was too young for him. besides being a good poet. he was a wonderful man in many ways and was a long time abolitionist. he was more than antislavery. he wanted slavery enended. he didn't the president in a gradual way. i was interested in literary figures whom we know as literary fill your and their history. >> we come to history from a similar literary place. my graduate degree is in american literature, and i live on man tuck et largely because i like mobby dick. [laughter] and he does. >> i wrote a little book about that. and -- >> i'm a fan. and -- like wise. continuing and i was actually named for nathaniel haw thorn. wasn't it said that his biography of franklin piers was the greatest work of fiction he had ever written. >> yeah, it was said that. and he dedicated. when he dedicated a book to f
i grew up in massachusetts where whittier was from. i had whittier rammed down my throat and didn't like him much. when the library of america called me to do the book on whittier, i thought, all right. i reread him and he was marvelous. i was too young for him. besides being a good poet. he was a wonderful man in many ways and was a long time abolitionist. he was more than antislavery. he wanted slavery enended. he didn't the president in a gradual way. i was interested in literary figures...
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relating to initiative -- prior to the justice department service he taught 30 years at the university of massachusetts and welcomed here today. please proceed. >> thank you. in the draft report stemming the tried strategy to reduce the growth that cut the cost of federal prison system. and it observes this growth come at -- i agree more with the report. we need consider in order make good decision and as a result may offer cost shifting and that true cost savings. the more comprehensive view of the problem we face would cast the issue differently. we need to reduce not the cost of incarceration or indeed the criminal justice system. but rather the total associate cost of crime including not only expenditure on public safety but the cost of victimization, tangible and intangible to the public. as we seek to do this, the allocation of funds among component of the criminal just i system could be guided by the demonstrated effectivenesses in reducing crime. not the absolute or relative size compared to other component of the criminal justice system. just how large and costly is the prison population? acco
relating to initiative -- prior to the justice department service he taught 30 years at the university of massachusetts and welcomed here today. please proceed. >> thank you. in the draft report stemming the tried strategy to reduce the growth that cut the cost of federal prison system. and it observes this growth come at -- i agree more with the report. we need consider in order make good decision and as a result may offer cost shifting and that true cost savings. the more comprehensive...
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like california, and massachusetts, other regions of the country, however, are well aware that coal provides nearly 40% of the nation's electricity. as such i ask all of you folks to hold a hearing in kentucky. to hear the concerns of coal country. but since epa refuses to cop to kentucky, i decided on behalf of kentucky's coalminers and their families i would bring their concerns to you myself. if the epa won't come to listen to us, we'll come here to the epa. by now it is clear that this administration and your agency declared a war on coal, for kentucky this means a war on jobs, and on our state's economy. the president has outright stated his intentions for the coal industry and this is what he had to say. if somebody wants to build a coal-power planned they can. it's just it will bankrupt them. because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all the greenhouse gas that is being emitted. the direct quote from the president of the united states. one of the first things president obama did upon taking office in 2009 was to push threwthrough congress' cap and trade bill to try to push it
like california, and massachusetts, other regions of the country, however, are well aware that coal provides nearly 40% of the nation's electricity. as such i ask all of you folks to hold a hearing in kentucky. to hear the concerns of coal country. but since epa refuses to cop to kentucky, i decided on behalf of kentucky's coalminers and their families i would bring their concerns to you myself. if the epa won't come to listen to us, we'll come here to the epa. by now it is clear that this...
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professor of financial regulatory policy for the isenberg school of management at the university of massachusetts amherst, and she's received numerous awards including the john f. kennedy profiles in courage award, she's twice been named as the second most powerful woman in the world by "forbes" magazine, and she was named by harvard magazine and the washington post magazine as one of seven of america's top leaders. so we will hear from sheila bair. ron has had two stints with national journal and with atlantic media. in between he was national affairs columnist and national political correspondent for the los angeles times and while there was twice a finalist for the pulitzer prize for his coverage of presidential elections. he is the steady hand behind all the editorial coverage across our company and writes often for both the national journal and the atlantic, has a weekly column in national journal and has covered lots of beats for us, most of them here in washington at the white house and as national politics correspondent and was west coast correspondent for some time as well. so i welcome
professor of financial regulatory policy for the isenberg school of management at the university of massachusetts amherst, and she's received numerous awards including the john f. kennedy profiles in courage award, she's twice been named as the second most powerful woman in the world by "forbes" magazine, and she was named by harvard magazine and the washington post magazine as one of seven of america's top leaders. so we will hear from sheila bair. ron has had two stints with...
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but the vast majority of his life was in vermont and new hampshire, massachusetts also. nonetheless, some one and an arbor. in 1921 he was invited to be a kind of writer in residence. now you can throw a stone at the university without uncovering a writer, an artist in residence, but at that time which is after row a century ago, it was revolutionary notion, kept a very stiff arm and remove from academia. you know permafrost was not a scholar or a university graduate himself. he ended up receiving all sorts of lottery degrees and became often a doctor of letters, but at the time he was somebody you was more known as a farmer and a private citizen. for university to invite him to say you're a person of consequence, what you hang around was already rather remarkable. he came and stayed for a year. he returned again for couple of years. so his tenure here was relatively brief. it was nonetheless an important time of his creative life. some of the palms we think of as about new england were composed here, perhaps of a sense of sorrow. perhaps out of a sense of nostalgia, but
but the vast majority of his life was in vermont and new hampshire, massachusetts also. nonetheless, some one and an arbor. in 1921 he was invited to be a kind of writer in residence. now you can throw a stone at the university without uncovering a writer, an artist in residence, but at that time which is after row a century ago, it was revolutionary notion, kept a very stiff arm and remove from academia. you know permafrost was not a scholar or a university graduate himself. he ended up...
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according to "the washington post," public support ranges from a high of 81% in massachusetts to a low of 63% in mississippi. so it's clear that this support cuts across party affiliation and gender -- generational gaps. whether you're a democrat, a republican, an independent, whether you're libertarian, whether you are young or old, americans overwhelmingly support this bill. the american people are basically giving us a message. this is a no-brainer. we shouldn't have to fight about it. we should just vote for it. that's why i was just so dismayed to read that house speaker boehner said that he would not support enda, and his reason was it will increase litigation. now, does the speaker really think that lgbt americans who have families to support and bills to pay would rather pursue frivolous lawsuits than earn their pay in a workplace free of harassment and discrimination? and here's what's really, i think, disingenuous about that. republicans do not suggest that all the other groups covered by the civil rights act are filing frivolous lawsuits. in other words, all the rest of amer
according to "the washington post," public support ranges from a high of 81% in massachusetts to a low of 63% in mississippi. so it's clear that this support cuts across party affiliation and gender -- generational gaps. whether you're a democrat, a republican, an independent, whether you're libertarian, whether you are young or old, americans overwhelmingly support this bill. the american people are basically giving us a message. this is a no-brainer. we shouldn't have to fight about...
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we'll leave the last moment or two of this and take you live to elizabeth warren, the senator from massachusetts, speaking at the u.s. capitol in the russell senate office building. she's speaking to a group called the persons for financial reform and the roosevelt institute, it's just getting underway live here on c-span2. >> we fought shoulder to shoulder throughout the dodd-frank effort and after that in the regulatory efforts and continue that battle today. so i want to start this by saying a very big thank you to americans for financial reform and to the roosevelt institute for inviting me to speak here today. i've been working very closely with afr and with roosevelt, and i am delighted to be here. you know, it has been five years since the financial crisis, but we all remember its darkest days. credit dried up, the stock market crashed, historic institutions like lehman brothers and merrill lynch or were wiped out. there were legitimate fears that our economy was tumbling over a cliff, be and we were heading into another great depression. we averted that grim outcome, but the damage was s
we'll leave the last moment or two of this and take you live to elizabeth warren, the senator from massachusetts, speaking at the u.s. capitol in the russell senate office building. she's speaking to a group called the persons for financial reform and the roosevelt institute, it's just getting underway live here on c-span2. >> we fought shoulder to shoulder throughout the dodd-frank effort and after that in the regulatory efforts and continue that battle today. so i want to start this by...
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. >> host: bill in massachusetts you are on with author and congressman john lewis. >> caller: i want to offer my assessment of the situation. i've been analyzing this for about half a century. i want your comments. i belief that a lot of tragedy in the last decades that people assessed the situation properly. i belief that there is obviously white racism -- racialism can cm excusing him and i also believe that there is black racialism into the white and black racialism -- no one has the guts to talk about it. the only thing we do talk about our comedians. i want your opinion and i want to also add that the emmett till case if you analyze it and are honest about it is a sexual crime because all he did his iss whistle that a white woman or make a comment about a white woman and look at the price he paid all because of whistling. that is psychotic and pathological and people don't even talk about it in terms of the basis of his murder. so i would like your assessment on the racial situation ultimately just above that what you tend to agree that there is a sexual aspect to racialism that
. >> host: bill in massachusetts you are on with author and congressman john lewis. >> caller: i want to offer my assessment of the situation. i've been analyzing this for about half a century. i want your comments. i belief that a lot of tragedy in the last decades that people assessed the situation properly. i belief that there is obviously white racism -- racialism can cm excusing him and i also believe that there is black racialism into the white and black racialism -- no one...
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and he stopped in massachusetts to get again to eat. he's sitting there in a restaurant and a couple comes up in the man says i know you. you're on the supreme court, right? he says yes. you're stephen breyer, right? he didn't want to embarrass the valid part of his wife, so we said yes, and stephen breyer. they chatted for a while and the patsy question that he didn't expect. justice breyer, what's the best thing about being on the supreme court? he thought for a minute that i'd have to sit the privilege of serving with david souter. [laughter] and then off he went. how can you not love an institution where that's possible even today? [laughter] >> jeffrey, many years ago i worked for the dow jones weekly national observer and i was the backup reporter, court reporter for that paper with nina totenberg, now famous at npr and i'm sure you know nina. nina would come back from covering the court with wonderful little stories from the end i. and it wasn't exactly cost of, but it sheds some light. >> was not disparage gossett. [laughter] >>
and he stopped in massachusetts to get again to eat. he's sitting there in a restaurant and a couple comes up in the man says i know you. you're on the supreme court, right? he says yes. you're stephen breyer, right? he didn't want to embarrass the valid part of his wife, so we said yes, and stephen breyer. they chatted for a while and the patsy question that he didn't expect. justice breyer, what's the best thing about being on the supreme court? he thought for a minute that i'd have to sit...
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seshe and the senator from massachusetts and i all were at the hearing this morning where the head of the center for medicaid and medicare services talked about the health care law. i thought the senator from alaska was especially cogent in pointing out the difficulties and the differences between those who live in alaska and their inability to connect to the services in the new health care law. if i remember correctly, she said only three have been able to enroll, and she pointed out the differences in time. i'd like to spend a few minutes reflecting on what happened this morning and what i said to the administration's witness. i began by telling her a story, a story about 16,000 tennesseans who have insurance through something called cover tennessee, a low-cost coverage state program. obamacare is canceling their policies, those 16,000 policies. cover tennessee apparently is an example of what the president has called "bad apples," an insurance plan that washington has decided isn't good enough for you. i recently heard from one of those tennesseans whose policy will be canceled on
seshe and the senator from massachusetts and i all were at the hearing this morning where the head of the center for medicaid and medicare services talked about the health care law. i thought the senator from alaska was especially cogent in pointing out the difficulties and the differences between those who live in alaska and their inability to connect to the services in the new health care law. if i remember correctly, she said only three have been able to enroll, and she pointed out the...
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this is richard in massachusetts. >> hi, i am like you and i need my daily dose of amy's show and i brought your book in cambridge when she interviewed you. my question is three days after 9-11, the congress minus congressman lee, was the only authorization of the use of military force was passed. and bush and obama have used the authorization to do anything they want in the middle east with drones or whatever. my question is do you think that the neo conservatives and liberals will resend that law? can you believe we will have troops in afghanistan until 2024. >> there is a lot there. i think the original authorization was a disaster piece passed because of fear. i tell young people to be watch barbara's speech. imagine being the only decenter in congress on that vote days after the 9-11 attacks took place. there is discussion about repealing or modifying the authorization for the use of military force, but at the end of the day, under the article two of the constitution, the american has the right to control foreign policy. democrats and republicans alike have violated the war power act a
this is richard in massachusetts. >> hi, i am like you and i need my daily dose of amy's show and i brought your book in cambridge when she interviewed you. my question is three days after 9-11, the congress minus congressman lee, was the only authorization of the use of military force was passed. and bush and obama have used the authorization to do anything they want in the middle east with drones or whatever. my question is do you think that the neo conservatives and liberals will...
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king's professor financial regulatory policy for the isenberg school of management at the university of massachusetts amherst and she has received numerous awards including the john f. kennedy profiles in courage award. she has twice been named as the second most powerful woman in the world by "forbes" magazine and she was named by harvard university and the "washington post" magazine as one of seven of america's top lawyer so we will hear from sheila bair. she will be interviewed by my colleague ron brownstein. ron has had two stems with "national journal" and with atlantic media darigan between he was national affairs columnist and national political correspondent for "the los angeles times" and while there was twice a finalist for the pulitzer prize for his coverage of presidential elections. he is the steady hand behind the editorial coverage across her company and writes often for both the "national journal" and the atlantic and has a weekly column in "national journal" and is covered lots of -- especially in washington and was west coast correspondent for sometime as well so welcome to the stag
king's professor financial regulatory policy for the isenberg school of management at the university of massachusetts amherst and she has received numerous awards including the john f. kennedy profiles in courage award. she has twice been named as the second most powerful woman in the world by "forbes" magazine and she was named by harvard university and the "washington post" magazine as one of seven of america's top lawyer so we will hear from sheila bair. she will be...
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i grew up in massachusetts where whittier was from. i had whittier rammed down my throat and didn't like him much. when the library of america called me to do the book on whittier, i thought, all right. i reread him and he was marvelous. i was too young for him. besides being a good poet. he was a wonderful man in many ways and was a long time abolitionist. he was more than antislavery. he wanted slavery enended. he didn't the president in a gradual way. i was interested in literary figures whom we know as literary fill your and their history. >> we come to history from a similar literary place. my graduate degree is in american literature, and i live on man tuck et largely because i like mobby dick. [laughter] and he does. >> i wrote a little book about that. and -- >> i'm a fan. and -- like wise. continuing and i was actually named for nathaniel haw thorn. wasn't it said that his biography of franklin piers was the greatest work of fiction he had ever written. >> yeah, it was said that. and he dedicated. when he dedicated a book to f
i grew up in massachusetts where whittier was from. i had whittier rammed down my throat and didn't like him much. when the library of america called me to do the book on whittier, i thought, all right. i reread him and he was marvelous. i was too young for him. besides being a good poet. he was a wonderful man in many ways and was a long time abolitionist. he was more than antislavery. he wanted slavery enended. he didn't the president in a gradual way. i was interested in literary figures...
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president, you know, as the senator from massachusetts, the thousands in your state and millions of private contractors and nonprofit organizations, not the least of which, one of my favorites, the catholic church, who delivers so many social services to the people of our state and nation. it's very hard for anyone to plan anything when the federal budget is in such disarray. if there's anyone that can figure this out, it's senator mikulski. so as one of our subcommittee chairs, i want to be here to support her work. i'm the chair of the homeland security committee and just add my voice to how important it is for us over these next few weeks to get a budget resolution done. senator murray has passed a budget on this side. we're finally, after the recklessness of a government shutdown, finally everyone has come to our senses and we're now in conference, budget committee. we've got to get that budget number done. so that once we agree on what the topline spending is, or the budget for the country, we can then go about building the 14 bills that actually run the department of defense, the depa
president, you know, as the senator from massachusetts, the thousands in your state and millions of private contractors and nonprofit organizations, not the least of which, one of my favorites, the catholic church, who delivers so many social services to the people of our state and nation. it's very hard for anyone to plan anything when the federal budget is in such disarray. if there's anyone that can figure this out, it's senator mikulski. so as one of our subcommittee chairs, i want to be...